HEALTH AFTER AGE 50: THE ROLE OF ADULT CHILDREN’S EDUCATION FOR OLDER PARENTS’ FRAILTY IN EUROPE

Abstract Social stratification research has shown that family background can significantly impact a child’s life chances. However, intergenerational transmission of (dis-)advantages is a two-way process, because parental investment in children may be reciprocated later in life. Particularly, very little is known about the importance of adult children’s socio-economic resources on ageing parents’ well-being – what has been called the effect of the “social foreground” on later-life health. This study aims to investigate whether and how adult offspring’s educational attainments are associated with parents’ health. This study uses dyadic panel data from all the available waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) (i.e., from 2004 to 2020). The sample is composed of 89,752 parents (210,999 parent-child dyads, 250,605 observations) aged 50 or older living in 29 different European countries. Our preliminary results from random intercept linear regression models show that child education is negatively associated with the 40-item Frailty Index (FI) among parents. This association is particularly strong among lower-educated parents (especially mothers). These findings highlight the importance of considering the socio-economic resources of adult children when examining the health and well-being of older adults. This suggests that public investments in younger generations’ education may benefit older generations as well. In developing future analyses, we plan to focus on identifying the potential generative mechanisms behind this relationship and exploring potential policy interventions to support ageing parents and their families.

masking, hand washing, social distancing) (N=145; age range 30-79 years, Mage = 61.4years, SD = 8.5).A national sample of grandparents were surveyed using a multi-scale index of psychological distress, reliance on intrapersonal resources during the pandemic, as well as sociodemographics.An initial hierarchical regression analysis of caregivers' emotional adjustment was conducted, wherein (1) sociodemographic variables were first entered as a set followed by 2) a 17-item measure of COVID demands (alpha = .73),3) two indices of grandparent intrapersonal resources [resilience and empowerment/social support and religious coping], and 4) two indices of psychosocial stress [parental distress, health, social/ emotional and loneliness/parental distress, parent-child dysfunction, difficult child and parenting challenges].The overall model was statistically significant (F 11, 123 = 22.98, p < .01),accounting for 64% of the variance in grandparent adjustment difficulties.While sociodemographics and COVID demands failed to predict emotional distress, both categories of grandparent intrapersonal resources (p < .01),and both categories of psychosocial stress (p < .01)did so.Subsequent correlational findings indicated that intrapersonal resources (social support and religious coping) mediated the relationship between COVID demands and emotional adjustment.These findings suggest that while grandparent caregivers experienced significant emotional distress during the pandemic, reliance upon the support of others as well as their own intrapersonal resources may be instrumental in managing such distress.

HEALTH AFTER AGE 50: THE ROLE OF ADULT CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FOR OLDER PARENTS' FRAILTY IN EUROPE
Damiano Uccheddu 1 , and Marco Tosi 2 , 1. University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Ixelles, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, 2. University of Padua, Padua, Veneto, Italy Social stratification research has shown that family background can significantly impact a child's life chances.However, intergenerational transmission of (dis-)advantages is a two-way process, because parental investment in children may be reciprocated later in life.Particularly, very little is known about the importance of adult children's socio-economic resources on ageing parents' well-beingwhat has been called the effect of the "social foreground" on later-life health.This study aims to investigate whether and how adult offspring's educational attainments are associated with parents' health.This study uses dyadic panel data from all the available waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) (i.e., from 2004 to 2020).The sample is composed of 89,752 parents (210,999 parent-child dyads, 250,605 observations) aged 50 or older living in 29 different European countries.Our preliminary results from random intercept linear regression models show that child education is negatively associated with the 40-item Frailty Index (FI) among parents.This association is particularly strong among lower-educated parents (especially mothers).These findings highlight the importance of considering the socio-economic resources of adult children when examining the health and well-being of older adults.This suggests that public investments in younger generations' education may benefit older generations as well.In developing future analyses, we plan to focus on identifying the potential generative mechanisms behind this relationship and exploring potential policy interventions to support ageing parents and their families.

INTERGENERATIONAL BONDS ACROSS THE EARLY YEARS OF MARRIAGE
Raquael Joiner 1 , Jacqueline Perez 2 , Thomas Bradbury 2 , and Benjamin Karney 2 , 1. University of Southern California , Los Angeles, California, United States, 2. University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States As adults embark upon marriage, forming their own new nuclear families, they often remain connected to their families of origin.Nevertheless, spouses' relationships with their parents and in-laws are likely to change across the early years of marriage.Given that empirical studies to date are typically limited to only a couple of measurement occasions, however, the stability and impact of such changes are unclear.Using Repeated Measures Latent Class Analyses, the present study addresses this gap by identifying classes of spouses (N=375 dyads) experiencing different types of relationships with their parents and in-laws across the first 9 years of marriage.Further, correlates and consequences of spouses' longitudinal sentiment profiles were also examined.Three sentiment profiles (i.e., Mostly Helpful, Mostly Ambivalent, Mostly Indifferent, Mostly Difficult) emerged when looking at spouse's sentiments toward their own parents and for husbands' sentiments towards their in-laws, whereas 4 profiles (i.e., Mostly Helpful, Mostly Ambivalent, Mostly Indifferent, Mostly Difficult) were found for wives' sentiments towards their in-laws.Mostly Ambivalent sentiment profiles showed the least stability, and spouses showed significantly higher odds of being in the Mostly Ambivalent class if they were living in a multigenerational household and if the wife was a 2nd generation immigrant.Spouses whose marriages dissolved showed significantly higher odds of being in the Mostly Indifferent, Mostly Ambivalent, and Mostly Difficult classes, compared to the Mostly Helpful class.These results provide an important starting point for future research aiming to understand how intergenerational bonds may promote or hinder successful marriages.
Abstract citation ID: igad104.1743Jin Fan, and Hong Mi, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China (People's Republic) Objective: Guided by modernization theory and intergenerational solidarity theory, this study examined the general patterns of intergenerational relations with patrilineal and matrilineal parents in contemporary China and explored its influencing factors and mechanism.

INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS OF MARRIED PERSONS WITH THEIR PATRILINEAL AND MATRILINEAL PARENTS IN CHINA
Methods: Data from the 2017 Chinese General Social Survey were examined.Analytic samples consisted of married respondents with at least one patrilineal parent and one matrilineal parent alive (N = 1098).Latent class analysis (14